On Sun, 14 Dec 2025 05:53:43 -0500
Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
<snip>
> The #2 reason is
> that if you write a daemon for sysvinit, your daemon must background
> itself at just the right time.
<snip>

There are programs that just do one thing, daemonizing, and do it well.
They've been around for decades! Devuan has two available for install.
There may be others.

Package        Main binary    Initial release
name:        name:        date:
daemon        daemon        1999
daemontools    supervise    2001

Sincerely,
David